Thoughts and observations by English poet Roger N. Taber, a retired librarian & poet-novelist.- "Colour, creed, sex, sexuality... these are but part of a whole. It is the whole that counts." RNT [NB While I have no wish to create a social network, I will always reply to emails. Contact: rogertab@aol.com].

Monday, 20 July 2015

Getting the Better of Rock and Hard Place

It often strikes me as one of life's more bitter-sweet ironies that it's the
heart in winter that focuses most on spring...

Me, I have never been as happy as the too few years I shared with my late
partner a long time ago. Even so, I learned to be happy again. Oh, I have never
met anyone else with whom I wanted to share my life, but I have made some good friends,
found a curious peace, comfort and joy in my poetry as well as being blessed
with a natural optimism to see me through. I may not be a very successful
writer, but success has never meant as much to me as enjoying life in my own
way. [Yes, I have prostate cancer, but have all I need to see me through that too.]

Love comes to each and every one of us in all shapes and forms; its effect on us never (quite) fades even though sometimes it may be but a visitor, passing through. The past, too, is
a part of us and never forgotten, whether or not it needs to be tempered by forgiveness, nor should it ever be where it has made us
happy. Ah, but it's building on that happiness, making the most of the present, each of us in our own way, and
looking forward to the future that counts…no matter what.

GETTING THE BETTER OF ROCK AND HARD PLACE

I walked in a wood one winter

as I had with my true love one
spring,

promising ourselves to each other;
the trees were bare, yet so splendid,

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About Me

A gay man. Born in Gillingham, Kent (UK) Dec. 21st 1945. Graduated with BA Hons.(Class 2/1) in English & American Literature, the University of Kent in Canterbury, summer 1973.

Some 700+ poems have appeared in poetry publications worldwide since 1993, excluding any that only appear in my collections.

Better known as a poet, my first novel - 'Blasphemy' was published in the USA, October 2006 ; it is Book 1 of a planned trilogy and was also distributed in the UK & the rest of Europe. Book 2 - 'Sacrilege' -was self-published and only on sale in the UK or on the Internet. [Book 3 - 'Redemption' - has been delayed due to illness. (I have prostate cancer.) Other novels have not yet found an agent/ publisher but are serialised on my fiction site.